Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

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Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a set of models of how communication impacts and is impacted by subjective experience. 

Richard Bandler and John Grinder, in their book on NLP, Frogs Into Princes:  "We call ourselves modelers.  What we essentially do is to pay very little attention to what people say they do, and a great deal of attention to what they do." 

Neuro-Linguistic programming is concerned with the patterns or programming created by the interactions among the brain, language, and the body, that produce both effective and ineffective behavior.

Genuine NLP-related techniques focus on process and largely, if not completely, avoid content.

NLP makes little or no use of psycho-analytical style "psycho-archaeology"

Because, whenever content and/or raking over old memories become the primary focus, control passes from the client/subject to the person using the technique.

...Results brought about by the client/subject are far more effective than results imposed upon them - as expressed in the presupposition that people already have, or can find, all the resources they need.

 (NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Accessed at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh?term=%22Neuro-linguistic%20Programming%22, May, 2011)

Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP)

NLP offers very effective support for all kinds of behavioral changes, and provides self-hypnosis techniques to change mental, physical and emotional states with ease and speed.

NLP is not about exploring or analyzing the content of an issue, but instead is oriented around effectively shifting from the state associated with the presenting issue or problem to the desired state (or resource state) through rapid trance techniques which employ neurological processes to achieve results.

Through NLP inner resources are developed and activated. NLP works with the brain, using the way the brain processes experiences, information, beliefs and feelings for the purpose of making positive cahnges in your life. 

NLP techniques can be used both in light or medium trance states, and once learned in trance can be easily used in a waking state to support achieving goals as well as achieving ongoing emotional balance and harmony.

How Does NLP Work?

NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a name that encompasses the three most influential components involved in producing human experience: neurology, language and programming.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming describes the fundamental dynamics between mind (neuro) and language (linguistic) and how their interplay effects our body and behavior (programming).

Our neurological system regulates how our bodies function.

Language determines how we interface, interact and communicate with other people.

And our programming determines the kinds of models of the world we create; how we organize our experiences in our mind.

NLP is the practice of understanding how people organize their thinking, feeling, language and behavior to produce the results they get.

NLP was developed as a way to understand the secrets of outstanding performances achieved by geniuses and leaders in their field.

By using NLP strategies, you will be able to observe your world and reflect on how to revise the way you interact with others to promote positive outcomes in all aspects of your life. Imagine being able to reduce conflict and improve your ability to communicate.

Change your mind set with NLP principles such as Anchoring, Getting out of stuck states, Parts Integration, Changing a negative belief, Clarifying your goals, Change habits, Modeling Excellence, Clarifying what others are saying, Effective Language in Communication, Instant Rapport, Strategies in Communication. Develop visualization techniques to ensure you are totally confident in any situation. Learn and understand the importance of paraphrasing and matching/mirroring people to improve your relationships.

We can change our outlook on life just by changing what we choose to focus on. By learning how to relate to people, using hypnosis and visualization to change things in your unconscious mind, you will truly increase your happiness as you go about your everyday life!

Keith Livingston of Hypnosis 101 says:

"Here’s one way of looking at it. NLP techniques sometimes use a fair amount of conscious participation to work with the unconscious. Let’s look at an NLP visual swish pattern as an example.

With a visual swish, we might first find an image that is triggering a “bad” feeling in a client.

The client is unlikely to be consciously aware of that image before we get them to recognize it. We then take them consciously through the steps of the swish, having them create a resource image, shrink it down, swish etc. We do this until whenever the client thinks about the situation that’s been bothering them, they automatically get the new image and a new feeling to go along with it!

So, we’ve used conscious participation to get at and change an unconscious pattern. We can do this with a swish pattern because we understand the mechanics of the way pictures affect feelings."

See Hypnosis 101 for more informaiton.

Everyone uses their senses to learn.

Everyone uses their senses to learn. Most people have an unconscious successful strategy for learning that is triggered when the information is presented in a preferred way.
The more senses you use the stronger the memory you will create. Try using words from only one sense at a time and then all three.

Visual
See
Look
View
Appear
Show
Dawn
Reveal
Envision
illuminate
twinkle
clear
foggy
focused
hazy
sparkling
crystal clear
flash
imagine
picture
visualise

An eyeful
Appears to me
Beyond a shadow of a doubt
Birds-eye view
Catch a glimpse of
Clear cut
Dim view
Eye to eye
Flashed on
Get a perspective on
Get a scope on
Hazy idea
In light of
In person
In view of
Looks like
Make a scene
Mental images
Mental picture
Mind's eye
Paint a picture
Photographic -memory
Plainly see
Pretty as a picture
See to it
Short-sighted
Showing off
Sight for sore eyes
Take a peak
Tunnel vision
Up front
Under your nose



Auditory
Hear
Listen
Sound(s)
Make music
Harmonise
Tune in/out
Be all ears
Rings a bell
Silence
Be heard
Resonate
Deaf
Mellifluous
Dissonance
Attune
Overtones
Unhearing
Question
Tone
Click
Tell
Timbre
Resonance

Afterthought
Blabbermouth
Clear as a bell
Clearly expressed
Call on
Describe in detail
Earful
Express yourself
Give an account of
Give me your ear
Grant an audience
Heard voicesHidden message
Hold your tongue
Idle talk inquire into
Keynote speaker
Loud and clear
Manner of speaking
Pay attention to
Power of speech
Purrs like a kitten
Outspoken
Rap session
Rings a bell
State your purpose
Tattle tale
To tell the truth
Tongue tied
Tuned in/out
Unheard of
Utterly
Word for word
Within hearing range



Kinaesthetic
Feel
Touch
Grasp
Get hold of
Slip through
catch on
tap into
make contact
throw out
turn around
hard
unfeeling
concrete
scrape
unbudging
get a handle on
solid
suffer

All washed up
Boils down to it
Chip of the old block
Come to grips with
Control yourself
Cool/calm/collected
Firm foundations
Floating on thin air
Get a handle on this
Get in touch with
Get the drift of
Get your goat
Hand in hand
Hang in there
Heated argument
Hold it!
Hold on!
Hot-headed
Keep your shirt on!
Know -how
Lay cards on table
Light-headed
Moment of panic
Not following you
Pain in the neck
Pull some strings
Sharp as a tack
Slipped my mind
Smooth operator
So-so
Start from scratch
Stiff upper lip
Stuffed shirt
Topsy-turvy



Unspecified
Sense
Experience
Understand
Think
Learn
Imagine
Process
Decide
Motivate
Consider
Change
Perceive
Insensitive
Distinct
Conceive
Be conscious
Know
Explore

Future Pacing with NLP

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Future Pacing

Future Pacing allows you to look into the future and see yourself already having achieved the desired change.

Future pacing is a technique of "embedding" change into the future - to give you an experience of dealing positively with a situation before you get into the same situation again.

This is based on visualization: the mind cannot tell the difference between a scenario which is real and one which has been clearly visualized.

The idea is that, having visualized success, when they are again in the real-life situation, the previous hypnotic experience will give them the confidence they need to smoothly sail through the actual situation.

More from Steve G. Jones, M.Ed. who is a board certified Clinical Hypnotherapist. http://www.betterlivingwithhypnosis.com/

What is Neuro Linguistic Programming - NLP?

Please follow this link for more information
The Empowerment Group.


Neuro:

The nervous system (the mind), through which our experience is processed via five senses:

Visual
Auditory
Kinesthetic
Olfactory
Gustatory


Linguistic:

Language and other nonverbal communication systems through which our neural representations are coded, ordered and given meaning.

Includes:
Pictures
Sounds
Feelings
Tastes
Smells
Words (Self Talk)


Programming:

The ability to discover and utilize the programs that we run (our communication to ourselves and others)

in our neurological systems

to achieve our specific and desired outcomes.

In other words, NLP is how to use the language of the mind to consistently achieve our specific and desired outcomes.


When was NLP created?

NLP was initially created in the 1970’s

by Richard Bandler

a student of mathmatics and gestalt therapy

and

John Grinder

a Professor of Liguistics

at The University of California Santa Cruz.

They began modeling and duplicating the "magical results" of a few top communicators and therapists.

Some of the first people they studied included Hypnotherapist Milton Erickson,

gestalt therapist Fritz Perls

and family therapist Virginia Satir.

Since then, many others have contributed to the growth and development of the field.

Today, NLP is widely used

in business to improve management, sales and achievement/performance, inter-personal skills;

in education to better understand learning styles, develop rapport with students and parents and to aid in motivation;

and of course,

NLP is a profound set of tools for personal development.

Brain Waves and Age

From birth to four, babies' brains operate in the delta state, with brain waves running below 4 cycles per second. In adults, this level of brain wave activity is experienced in the deepest levels of sleep.

From four to seven, children operate in theta state, with brain waves running between four and seven cycles per second. In adults, this level of brain wave activity is experienced during sleep and also during states of fear when the body goes into a 'fight or flight' response. This is a powerful level from which to initiate change. In this state, we only need one or two experiences of learning to change behaviour.

From the ages seven to fourteen, we live in the alpha state of seven to fourteen cycles per second. In adults, this is associated with light sleep, meditation, or eyes closed relaxation. At this level effective learning can take place after about 21 repetitions. Practice a new behaviour for 21 consecutive days and that behaviour becomes a habit. Research has shown that strong levels of physical healing can take place when the brain is at 10 cycles per second.

From puberty through adulthood the brain operates in the beta state, 14 - 21 cycles per second. This is experienced in the normal state of eyes open, awake and alert. In this state it may take many thousands of repetitions to learn a new behaviour. To create significant change in our lives at this level takes extensive deal of time and effort.

This info is from :Synthesis Learning
and NLP Learning Systems

NLP or Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Many consulting hypnotists and hypnotherapists have been trained in NLP techniques along with hypnosis. Richard Bandler and John Grinder are the Co-Creators of NLP or Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

NLP is about learning to learn the way your brain learns rather than the way you've been taught to learn. It's about learning to move quickly beyond limitations. It's about making your mind up, rather than your mind making up you. NLP will help you get what you want out of life.

We experience our problems, desires, feelings, beliefs and future outcomes as they are represented in visual, auditory (hearing), kinesthetic (touching and feeling) and sometimes gustatory (smell) and olfactory (taste) systems. When communicating with someone, rather than just listening to and responding to what a person said, NLP aims to also respond to the structure of verbal communication and non-verbal cues.

The physical, mental and emotional state someone is in when setting a goal or choosing a course of action is also considered important in the study of NLP. Certain language patterns of NLP can help clarify what has been left out or distorted in communication. NLP also helps us to be very specific in our thinking, reframe the meaning of our beliefs, and set sensory specific goals, which all help you get what you want out of life. This is the opposite of many language patterns that hypnotists use which are intentionally non-specific and metaphoric to allow the listener to fill in the gaps and make their own meaning from what is being said and find their own inner resources and solutions for problems.

Bandler says NLP was originally intended to be used to create more love and freedom for every human being on the planet. NLP is about creating choice in your life ... so that you can learn to do new things for yourself ... different things ... beyond the edges of what you thought possible before.

NLP is about freedom. These techniques can change your entire life for the better.